activating ext2

[tycoon]

Hi Alll....I have a small problem here...well i wanted to make new partiton in shell command enviroment...I did manage to make the partition but when tried to activate the ext2 with mke2fs command an error with a message "invalid argument passed to ext2 library while setting up superblock"..so can anybody please help me eith this issue....thanx u all advance for the support given to me

[shebang]

Hmm, did you mount the partition that you're trying to make ext2 on ? If so, unmount it, then:

mke2fs /dev/xxx

mount /dev/xxx /some-where-you-want-to-mount-it

http://www.idevelopment.info/data/Un...ive_ext3.shtml

Follow that..

Here's a tip: http://64.179.4.149/questions/history/231391

Try using cfdisk